Famous quotes containing the words high and/or speed:
“This is of the loonI do not mean its laugh, but its looning,is a long-drawn call, as it were, sometimes singularly human to my ear,hoo-hoo-ooooo, like the hallooing of a man on a very high key, having thrown his voice into his head. I have heard a sound exactly like it when breathing heavily through my own nostrils, half awake at ten at night, suggesting my affinity to the loon; as if its language were but a dialect of my own, after all.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Wait, Kate! You skate at such a rate
You leave behind your skating mate.
Your splendid speed wont you abate?
Hes lagging far behind you, Kate.”
—David Daiches (b. 1912)
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